Country size comparison

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Portugal is about 1.3 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 77.72% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (10.6 million fewer people live in Portugal).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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